Project Grant 2215975

This $390,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the acquisition of a high-resolution mass spectrometer by Rutgers University-Newark. The mass spectrometer, equipped with electrospray ionization, atmospheric pressure chemical ionization, and direct analysis in real time sources, will be used by Professor Frieder Jaekle and colleagues to conduct research in organic chemistry, catalysis, semiconductors, inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, and biological sciences. Specifically, the mass spectrometer will enable research involving amide bond activation, cross-coupling and catalysis, organocatalysis and green synthesis, molecular electrocatalysts for energy conversion, chromophore-semiconductor interfaces, organoboranes in materials science and catalysis, bacterial chemosensing, choline transport in myelin-forming glial cells, lipid metabolism in brain health and disease, lysozyme-mediated bacterial cell-wall-processing, and other biological sciences applications. The acquisition of this new instrumentation under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) strengthens Rutgers University-Newark's research infrastructure and enhances educational and research efforts for students and researchers across multiple departments and nearby institutions.